Yakuza Graveyard | Blu-ray

Find Fukasaku's pacing and editing to be too fast and furious to enjoy? Then this just might be the film for you.

Starring the incomparable Tetsuya Watari, Yakuza Graveyard is one of Fukasaku's most evenly paced, naturally flowing films. In it, the master of Jitsuroku Eiga (docu-drama style crime films) paints the portrait of a strong willed, honorable policeman, who slowly finds his sense of justice and identity corroded by gang turmoil and police corruption.

It's not the happiest of stories, but if you're a big fan of Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza films—or even if you've found them a little too overwhelming—this is a must see part of the director's oeuvre.

Special Features (via radiancefilms.co.uk)

• High-Definition digital transfer
• Original uncompressed mono PCM audio
• Appreciation by filmmaker Kazuya Shiraishi (2022, 15 mins)
• The Rage and the Passion - A visual essay by critic Tom Mes on Meiko Kaji and Kinji Fukasaku’s collaborations (2022, 12 mins)
• Gallery of promotional imagery
• Easter Egg
• Trailer
• Newly improved English subtitle translation